Seth Troxler billed for 2013 Eastern Electrics Festival

Magda, Dixon and Joy Orbison are also among those booked for the three-day event at Knebworth Park.

Initial details have been revealed for Eastern Electrics Festival 2013.

The London promoters have taken things up a notch for their second festival-size event. Following last year's one-day bash at Area 12, they've expanded the festival to a two-night, three-day affair (complete with camping) at Knebworth Park. The lineup so far is both diverse and star-studded. Highlights include Seth Troxler, Magda, Dixon, Michael Mayer, Joy Orbison, Claude VonStroke, Levon Vincent, Damian Lazarus, Theo Parrish and Ben UFO. Around 40 artists have been announced in total, with 60 more to be revealed between now and Easter.

Hi guys,If you're interested, i've written a long report on the festival on my website. The report is in English and French. Hope my english is not too bad though.There are also tracklists of the set i've heard :

Posted by CanerI expect EE to get better, and although I went for free this time, I would happily pay to go next year – I wouldn’t bother with the VIP experience though!

I also went for free with the VIP included but I actually probably would pay that little extra bit for it next year, chilling out in the bedouin lounge on Saturday early afternoon while trying to come to terms with what had gone on the night before was really, really nice. maybe I'm just getting old... Also saw some of Craig Richards in there Saturday night and thought it was pretty cool to see him playing somewhere so small.

I'm normally 100% against VIP shit so I kind of hate myself for just saying that.

I only went on Sunday, and me and my friends were lucky enough to get in for free.

Some of the comments I’ve read on this thread are quite strange. References to ‘London Rudeboys’ and ‘Essex Chavs’ seem to me to be clearly prejudiced and / or classist – black people and white working class people at a house and techno event – how terrible! For my part, all of the people I met or got talking to were safe and the vibe seemed live when I was there.

As for there not being enough ‘proper’ ravers there, you quite simply cannot have an event this size and expect everybody who turns up to be some sort of house / techno purist. The choice of acts while ‘underground’ compared to 99% of any other festivals that feature dance music in any form still had plenty of DJs that people with a passing interest in dance music would have heard of (and so what?)

I’ve also read complaints of too many people being off their heads – Well I’ve been raving since the early 90’s, and believe me compared those heady days the crowd was relatively laid back! Besides what do people expect at what was billed as an underground dance music event?

If I had paid to go however, I would have felt severely short changed by a few issues:

The lack of a proper main stage and it seems at least 1 other marquee is simply unforgivable.

The outrageous price for alcohol (and not premium brands at that). OK, OK - EE aren’t the only festival to do this, but it still rankles.

I got talking to a few people in the VIP area and had a look at their tent – which was OK but probably not worth the money they paid, and the VIP toilets were clean but had no running tap water!

The sound wasn’t loud, but at an outdoors event this is too be expected. You will never get the sound levels that you get in an enclosed space (e.g. a club or a bar) as you will get in an open air stage / marquee which will contain considerably less sound energy. The sound simply gets dissipated too easily, however I also didn’t see J-arrays being used which meant that you had to be right up close to the speakers to really feel the music.

EDIT: The Star of EE pub, was as others have said, just a lame beer tent!

But what of the event itself? I thought, importantly the music was on point, the crowd (although thinned out by Sunday) was friendly and up for it and the overall vibe of the event was wicked.

I think EE would actually be improved by paring down the line up and having underground DJs you are less likely to see at other big events playing longer sets – but considering the costs they also need to balance the need of being underground with making sufficient ticket sales – not easy to do.

I expect EE to get better, and although I went for free this time, I would happily pay to go next year – I wouldn’t bother with the VIP experience though!

Posted by theelbowShame about lack of communications during the festival - Last thing i want to be doing is checking my phone for updates all day when im getting spangled - better clearer communications around site, like the big chill used to do please

Yeah, 100%. Otherwise, decent first effort at a larger scale event by EE.

Yeah - this was a bit annoying. I ended up missing a fair few people over the weekend due to arena changes and ting.